Smart girl...
I had Alie work on a preschool workbook today and she did surprisingly well. It is made for a 4 year old, but I thought I might see if she could do some of the work sheets. She did so well that we completed half the book! I'm so proud of her!! I really didn't think she would understand half of the stuff. She even knew what was greater and lesser. She started loosing interest when we got to the "compare the first sounds" section. Example: out of Monkey, Tree, Mouse, which two have the same sound? She wasn't quite getting it.

She told me today that she wants to go to school to be with friends, BUT she is not potty trained. We've tried everything in the book, every single method in existence. She is just too laid back and stubborn to want to train. Her best friend trained right after turning 2. Alie could care less. She will go when her friend says she has to go, but she doesn't see this friend nearly enough to get trained. The good news is... I am going to watch said friend for a week or two come next month, so Alie may become trained! I really hope she will follow her friends example and just do it. Al really is a brilliant girl and knows how to go in the potty, she currently just doesn't care enough. Guess it's not in her priorities ;) I'm not really worried about it though, I know kids who didn't train until they were 4! I mean they still wore diapers. They were just WAY too stubborn lol!! It's funny how someone so small can have so much control over mom and dad (that m&d can't really do anything about).

What did she say?
Alie was reading the "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" book to me today. Her version of reading it is asking me what it is, and I say I dunno. Then she tells me "it's a blue horse" or whatever. When we got to the teacher page, I said "I dunno" and she kept saying this phrase over and over, and it was the same thing every time. I couldn't understand her though. So I said "its a teacher" and she said "no, its a .....". I still couldnt understand her.

So after the 5th time of her reading it to me, when we got to the teacher page, I FINALLY understood what she was calling the lady. She told me "It's a Peggy Hill!" OMG! I died laughing!! This maybe only funny to me, but I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. She just kept telling me "It's a Peggy Hill!!" If you go look at the book, she is right, it does resemble Peggy.

I'll try to post picture comparisons as soon as my dang camera works :)

When Alie grows up...
She told me today that she wants to be a Rock Star. I asked her how she was going to be one and she pointed towards her keyboard piano. I asked her if she was talking about the piano and she said "Yup, I want to be a Rock Star!" LOL!!! I wished her good luck.

I know I have been slow to get these pictures up. These are Alie pictures from August, Sept., and Oct. Hope you enjoy them!!

Click the picture to see the whole album:


:: Random pics ::


:: Close Ups in Sept. ::


:: Bath Time ::


:: 10.15.05 Alie's 3rd Birthday ::


:: 3rd Birthday Party ::


:: Halloween '05 ::

I will be updating soon! We had Alie's birthday party yesterday, so I have lots of pictures. I also have a ton of pictures from this past month that I need to upload too. I can't believe she is 3 years old already!!

I saw your message Tanya! We miss you too! Alie has asked me a few times if we could go see Tanya. Can't wait till you get to come back and visit us. Hope work is treating you nice and I bet you're glad to be back in the Ukraine.

Today is Alie's first day wearing BIG GIRL panties!! Woohoo! She went potty on the potty twice. I only started the training this evening.

Kriss was goofing around with her later on and thought it would be funny to give her a wedgie. She didn't like that AT ALL! She kept pointing her finger at daddy and shouting "Don't touch the butt!" Cracked me up!! I don't know which was funnier, seeing her little fat cheeks with little nemo undies wedged in the middle or her shouting at Kriss. I don't think I have laughed that hard in a long while!!

I would have recorded her saying this, but my batteries are dead in the recorder. Maybe I can get her to say it tomorrow.

I finally figured out how to use my WAV recorder. I recorded a short bit of Alie. I hope this is something that will be of use. Click the link to open the file.. choose open. You will need a program on your computer that plays WAV files like Winamp. You can download it for free!

I have also created a colum on the right to keep all of her recordings, so they are easier to find as I add more. It is the second box labeled "Sound". Hope you love these Grandpa, Grandma, and Jamie!!

Here is the first recording:
HI GRANDPA!